I’ve no idea what it costed in absolute terms as I’m only using the subscriptions but for the meagre ~216 EUR a month I am paying, I keep making my SQLite library more and more stable and resistant to timeouts, filesystem errors, sudden bursts of work, out-of-memory conditions (within reasonable limits of course), cancellations that don’t let runaway jobs crash your apps that use the library, and more.
Fable has proven itself as an extremely capable discussion partner and it helps me test ideas in practically 20x less time than it would take me to do it manually. One chief complaint though: it super rarely offers new approaches unless I chase after it and give it a few starting pointers. Shame but hey, our education – formal or self-made – has to shine through, somewhere.
Also my dotfiles setup benefited greatly. I now have scripts and backup machinery to stand up a new machine in my fleet as quickly as that machine can install and compile packages. Tightened my routers a lot, about to introduce Tailscale via Headscale, made anti-adblock rock-solid on the router level (so it automatically is not consulted if the mini-server falls down), almost finished my VPN-wide media center and many, many others. My machines have never been as stable and safe (automatic backups every 10 minutes and whatnot).
As mentioned in another thread: de-slopifying the code remains so far elusive. I am super gradually and slowly tightening the bolts but there’s only so much you can do when your job is booking you at 120%.
